geographer:
(plural: ‘geographers‘; pronunciation: the first ‘g’ in this word rhymes with the letter ‘j’ in the word “judge”; the second ‘g’ rhymes with the letter ‘g’ in “gun”)
(the geography of the earth)
a person who studies and knows about geography,
young geographers in field work
When we were at high school, our geography teacher influenced us so much that each of our classmates wanted to study geography and become be a geographer.
Most of us don’t have a clue what a geographer does though most of the time we enjoy the fruits of their labours in every aspect of our life.
A geographer is a person who studies the physical features of the earth in relation to the life on it, a cartographer is a person who makes charts and maps of places on the earth, a geologist (next entry →) is person who studies and analyses the kinds of soil and water found on and in the earth, and a geophysicist is a person who studies how earth’s magnetism, earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes occur.
a geographer using a computer
